And it smells good ! I've been digging into some upcoming stuff in entertainment for this year and next. Quite a lot of shiny coming up actually:
Movies
Noteworthy (good and bad) titles dug up in imdb. More sweetness than shit fortunately.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) - Woot!
Sucker Punch (2011) - I'm going to see that tonight. Hopefully good.
The Wolverine (2012)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - With Simon Pegg?? My hopes arent too high for that.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) - Woot!
Wanted 2 (2011) - Thats gonna be hit or miss.
Super Troopers 2 (2011) - Holy shit ! i still cant believe it.
Iron Sky (2012) - Synopsis: "The Nazis set up a secret base on the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018." roflwtf!?
X-Men: First Class (2011) - As long as they leave scott out of this movie…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - I still cant forgive Michael Bay, but i'm gonna give it a chance.
Zombieland 2 (2011) - Dont think its gonna be better than the first tho….
National Treasure 3 (2011) - Classic.
The Hobbit: Part 1 - Aww multi part movie :(
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - Fuck yea ! Maybe more of Christian Bale blasting his camera crew.
The Avengers (2012) - Robert Downey Jr. will hopefully save the day
Men in Black III (2012) - Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones are both back.
The Expendables II (2012) - Since arnold is no longer the governator, he should get a bigger role.
Ghostbusters III (2012) - The original cast is back ! Harold Ramis is fat now however. Cant blame him anyway.
Superman: Man of Steel (2012) - I was like: "yeesshh.. not sure about this one" then i saw "Director: Zack Snyder"
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) - Hit or miss.
Untitled Star Trek Sequel (2012) - Fuck yea ! far away tho…
Bond 23 (2012) - James Bond is still not dead thx to Daniel Craig
Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall (2012) - Nice! But no more Nick Cage in this one sadly.
Halo (2012) - Lol. Semlls like fail imo.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2012) - Bringing back old shit from the grave !
Indiana Jones 5 (2012)
Sin City 2 (2012) - Fuck yea !
Mass Effect (2012) - Still smells like fail.
Die Hard 5 (2012) - Still aint dead !
Total Recall (2012) - They replaced Arnold with Colin Farrel !? Thats not gonna work.
Terminator 5 (2014) - lol!? 2014 anyway.
Games
Portal 2 - So delicious and moist !
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - looks nice. Will try
Dynasty Warriors 7 - More meat for the grinder !
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (31 dec, 2012) - fkn too far away.
Doom 4 (31 dec 2011) - Lol!! will play.
Fallout Online (June 2012) - Unexpected but welcomed imo ! X, Syld team up on that ?
Postal III - lol…… just lol…..
Resident Evil 4 HD (on PS3) - Reheating old stuff. Good game tho.
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 - lolwtf!? i didnt know that existed. Meh will only please gundam fans.
Serious Sam 3: BFE - A new one ?? lol!
MMOs
A lot is comming this year and next. Mostly from Korea. NCsoft is on fire.
TERA - Non taget based mmo. Maybe this is a new genre that will make it big.
Guildwars 2 - Still free. Lots of potential and hype about it but thats about all i know of it. Not a fan of the theme either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_FskSWHLgE&
Blade & Soul - Visually eye gouging, however the boob slider goes a bit too far (Yea i said it). Incorporating fighting game mechanics and playable with a game pad makes me believe NCsoft will leave the hardcore pvp and grinding to aion and focus more on story and pve as the director commented. Should release on PS3/Xbox as well and supports my previous theory. Big teaser: (sexy!) Gameplay: /
Diablo 3 - I've heard rumors blizzard is giving some closed beta codes. Maybe we're gonna see it this year. I hope its gonna bring new stuff into the genre and not just reheated mechanics other games have already drilled through.
I've listed what made my raise an eyebrow. Good or bad. Go ahead and grow the list. There is a lot of stuff i didnt list. You guys have any plans for all these title ?
Diablo 3 is almost assuredly in an internal alpha now. If it follows suit anything like SC2 did I would expect to see beta announcements possibly in the next couple of months with somewhere around a June start date.
Also, I giggled that this list put a date on the next part of SC2. You won't even get a date for that until like a month(two tops) before it's ready to launch. They had a press release a little while back with a release slated for the end of this year and another for Q1 of next year. Assumingly those will be D3 and Heart of the Swarm. But as we all know and love with Blizzard, we won't know anything until they're ready.
Aside from Portal 2 those are honestly the only things on that list I'm interested in. I played Guild Wars a lot when it was released, and I'll more than likely pick up GW2 when it comes out.
PS. Dec 31st is a Saturday, and aside from that, it would be an absolutely atrocious day to launch any title. I'm sure you knew those were just placeholder dates though.
Blade and Soul looks like it could have some cool game mechanics, and I am really looking forward to D3. But you know what I'm waiting for more than anything else?
Skyrim:
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